USBdriveby exploits the trust of USB devices by emulating an HID keyboard and mouse, installing a cross-platform firewall-evading backdoor, and rerouting DNS within seconds of plugging it in. - samyk/usbdriveby

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol
based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.
It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting
content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering
notifications and content.

History is a DAG (like git), with all actions and information required to display the content stored - by default ephemerally, but can be 'remembered', which is permanent. Support branches and tags (b...

It sounds odd to put StarCraft maps and Sims dinettes in the same category as fiddle music and quilting, but socially they're congruent.

It's not enough for players to amass knowledge and skill; they have to see it those characteristics manifest themselves in the physics of the game. The accretion of value in persistent worlds changes the psychology of leisure: You haven't "spent" 1,000 hours playing a game; you've "built up your character." You've made progress! Accretion transforms idle time into something that feels industrious. It turns spending into earning. You see the same psychological dynamics with frequent flyer miles... Accretion elicits emotional investment. In the physical world, travelers cherish their stamp-filled passports ... Scouts have badges...

One reason the Web seems so rootless and superficial is the lack of accretion; there are very few mechanisms that render people's investment of time, attention, and emotional energy into persistent artifacts of quantifiable value. (I wish to build this for images!)

Story about game client controlling lighting, when there were unlit dungeons in UO. Chaos ensued, when hacked clients could see far better.